Between June 1944 and March 1945 London came under attack from Hitler's vengeance weapons : the V1 Flying Bomb, the first cruise missile and later the V2 rocket, the first ballistic missile. These killed 8938 people, seriously injured 25,000 others and destroyed tens of thousands of houses and other buildings. This web site has general information and time-line about the attacks; and also detailed logs for parts of South London.